Family Corner

The Post-Pandemic World

Prema Jayakumar The last couple of decades have brought us to a world that is post, or past, a lot of things. We’ve seen post-modern writing, post-modern art, post-modern cinema, even post-truth politics. Well, now a new kind of living or rather an old type of living that feels strange and unfamiliar is opening up […]

Three Stages of Spirituality

Rose Mary Why are you afraid, O you of little faith? Mathew 8:26 The shock waves generated from the recent incident at St Thomas College, Pala, have still not abated among students, parents and the public at large. TV channels were agog with details of the young girl’s story. A poor economic background, a house […]

The Immutable Word

Prema Jayakumar It is no wonder that the ancients called the letter ‘akshara’ or that which is not destroyed. A recent spate of birthdays, death anniversaries and even deaths of well-known writers prompted this thought. A writer touches so many lives, the lives of a number of people they have never seen or even thought […]

The Nativity of Mary

Rose Mary But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman -Galatians 4:4 A trip to Lourdes is usually on the cards while planning a tourist visit to Europe, and so it was for me, on my first trip abroad. An overnight train journey from Paris […]

Celebration of a Defeat

Prema Jayakumar A column written now cannot ignore what time of the year it is. It is the time of Onam, when the banished Asura king, Mahabali, comes to visit his subjects in this small area of his erstwhile kingdom. Oddly enough, while most festivals are celebrated across India, this is a festival that does […]

Opportunity Knocks!

Rose Mary Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. – Ephesians 5:15-17 About two years back, Hari joined a highly reputed catering organization after successfully completing his graduation from one of the top hotel management institutes in India. Business […]

When the Core is Shaken…

Prema Jayakumar We speak casually of being shaken to the core. And yet it can happen actually and then it is not a matter of casual mention. It is devastating in its results. Most of us have something we hold to be inviolate. It might be your faith in yourself, might be religious faith, faith […]

The Good Fight

Rose Mary I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith 2 Timothy 4:7 Every now and again, at certain predestined times in the history of mankind, a leader is born who is ordained to stop the downward spiral of events in the narrative of a state or […]

Pope: ‘Synodality is inseparable from ecumenism’

Vatican, Catholic leaders from Europe discuss sexual abuse in the Church